线 — meaning in English

English meaning

• cotton noun A soft white fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, used to make thread and fabric.
• filament noun A very thin thread or wire-like strand.
• strand noun One of the individual threads or wires twisted together to make a rope, cable, or cord.

Senses

线 is used for these senses in English:

• filament A fine thread or wire.
• strand Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

cotton — full definition

1. noun A soft white fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, used to make thread and fabric.
2. noun The plant itself, grown for its fibre.
3. verb Informal: to take a liking to someone or something, or start to understand it.

filament — full definition

1. noun A very thin thread or wire-like strand.
2. noun The thin coil inside an incandescent light bulb that glows white-hot when electricity passes through it.
3. noun In botany, the thin stalk of a stamen that holds up the anther in a flower.
4. noun A continuous spool of material, such as the plastic thread fed into a 3D printer.

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